Roberto Brusati

Roberto Brusati (3 July 1850-23 November 1935) was a Lieutenant-General in the Royal Italian Army during World War I.

Biography
Roberto Brusati was born in Milan, Lombardy, Austrian Empire on 3 July 1850, and he graduated from the Royal Military Academy in Turin in 1866. He spent almost his entire career as a staff officer, but he was promoted to Lieutenant-General at the start of World War I in 1915 and was given command of the Italian 1st Army; ironically, as a recently-appointed Senator, he had supported neutrality that very same year. He was dismissed in 1916 for incompetence shown at the Battle of Asiago, but he was rehabilitated in 1919. He supported the rise of fascism in Italy in 1922, and he retired in 1926 upon reaching the age of seniority. He died in 1935.